Many InventionsD. Appleton and Company, 1892 - 427 páginas |
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Página 60
... Thin I hiccupped again , an ' wid that he lost his patience good an ' all , same as this wan in the lines here . ' The gun - elephant was breaking into peal after peal of indignant trumpetings , to the disgust of the other animals who ...
... Thin I hiccupped again , an ' wid that he lost his patience good an ' all , same as this wan in the lines here . ' The gun - elephant was breaking into peal after peal of indignant trumpetings , to the disgust of the other animals who ...
Página 61
... scuffled on his neck , dhruv my knees undher his big flappin ' ears , an ' we wint to glory out av that compound wid a shqueal that crawled up my back an ' down my belly . Thin I remimbered the Snider , an ' MY LORD THE ELEPHANT . 61.
... scuffled on his neck , dhruv my knees undher his big flappin ' ears , an ' we wint to glory out av that compound wid a shqueal that crawled up my back an ' down my belly . Thin I remimbered the Snider , an ' MY LORD THE ELEPHANT . 61.
Página 62
Rudyard Kipling. belly . Thin I remimbered the Snider , an ' I grup ut by the muzzle an ' hit him on the head . ' Twas most forlorn , like — like tappin ' the deck av a throopship wid a cane to stop the engines whin you're sea - sick ...
Rudyard Kipling. belly . Thin I remimbered the Snider , an ' I grup ut by the muzzle an ' hit him on the head . ' Twas most forlorn , like — like tappin ' the deck av a throopship wid a cane to stop the engines whin you're sea - sick ...
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... Thin a brace av fat she - elephints wid mahouts an ' a commissariat sergint came shuffling round the corner av the barricks ; an ' the mahouts was abusin ' Ould Potiphar's mother an ' blood - kin . " Obsarve my reinforcemints , " I sez ...
... Thin a brace av fat she - elephints wid mahouts an ' a commissariat sergint came shuffling round the corner av the barricks ; an ' the mahouts was abusin ' Ould Potiphar's mother an ' blood - kin . " Obsarve my reinforcemints , " I sez ...
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... thin I put his shackles on , chained him fore an ' aft to the pickuts , an ' gave him my blessin ' , an ' wint back to barricks . ' ' And after ? ' I said in the pause . 6 ' Ye can guess , ' said Mulvaney . There was con- fusion , an ...
... thin I put his shackles on , chained him fore an ' aft to the pickuts , an ' gave him my blessin ' , an ' wint back to barricks . ' ' And after ? ' I said in the pause . 6 ' Ye can guess , ' said Mulvaney . There was con- fusion , an ...
Términos y frases comunes
Abdul Gafur acrost ain't answered Badalia Bai-Jove-Judson began bein bloomin boat Boileau Bull buoys called captain Challong Charlie children of men Cleever dead deck dinghy docthor Dowse elephint eyes face fight fire flat-iron Flores Strait fwhat galley Girl Gisborne give Grish Chunder Guadala gunboat Gunnison Street hand head heard heart Herodsfoot Hicksey honour Jenny Judson Keller killed knew Lascar Loo's mother laughed light looked Love-o'-Women M'Phee mahout Mowgli Mulvaney never night nilghai niver orf'cer Ortheris Ouless Peshawur Rathmines remember rifle round rukh Sahib SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN ship shouted Skrælings song speak story tale talk Tangi tell Terence thee There's thin things thou thought tide told took turned Twas veranda village voice walk whin wint woman women words
Pasajes populares
Página 326 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Página 114 - I remember the black wharves and the slips, And the sea-tides tossing free; And Spanish sailors with bearded lips, And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea. And the voice of that wayward song Is singing and saying still: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Página i - Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Página 106 - OR ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave, I was a King in Babylon And you were a Christian Slave.
Página 114 - Wouldst thou," — so the helmsman answered, " Learn the secret of the sea ? Only those who brave its dangers Comprehend its mystery...
Página 361 - Majesty hang to St. James The axe that he whetted to hack us ; He must play at some lustier games Or at sea he can hope to out-thwack us ; To his mines of Peru he would pack us To tug at his bullet and chain ; Alas ! that his Greatness should lack us !But where are the galleons of Spain ? ENVOY.
Página 400 - ... as an Arab Of thy beloved. Cling with life to the maid; But when the surprise, First vague shadow of surmise Flits across her bosom young, Of a joy apart from thee, Free be she, fancy-free; Nor thou detain her vesture's hem, Nor the palest rose she flung From her summer diadem. Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Though her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive; Heartily know, When half-gods go. The gods arrive.
Página 113 - ... somewhere in the sea, you know ; ' and, delighted with my paltry five pounds, had gone out to buy the notions of other men, that these might teach him how to write. I had the consolation of knowing that this notion was mine by right of purchase ; and I thought that I could make something of it. When next he came to me he was drunk — royally drunk — on many poets for the first time revealed to him.